episode_0221

The hot air streaming through the branches told me that summer was in full swing.

I wiped the sweat from my cheeks, took off my shoes and socks, and put my feet in the pond.

The bottom of his feet were covered in red marks from insect bites.

Even between his toes there were red marks left.

A gentle breeze blows and wipes the sweat from my cheeks.

I enjoyed the cool feeling.

Eyes closing gently.

The corners of the mouth slightly rise.

The cool, flowing water tickled my toes.

“You look happy.”

“Yeah. It’s refreshing~”

Shine, like me, dipped her feet into the pond.

Small white feet sink beneath the water.

“Hey, Shine.”

“Huh?”

The wind that blew in with the coolness of the water swayed my white hair.

I was blankly watching the scene, then slowly opened my mouth.

“These days, it seems like there aren’t many missions.”

Shine didn’t answer me.

I just moved my feet slightly underwater, creating ripples on the surface.

“What do you think?”

Shine looked back slowly.

In recent days, no, since that mission, we haven’t been able to get a single mission.

Sometimes it seemed like Victor and Amy were given individual missions, but there were no team-wide missions.

I thought it was just my team, so I snooped around other teams’ offices a few times.

But they were often absent as usual.

“Isn’t it better without it?”

Shine’s answer was heard late.

After answering like that, she moved her foot and placed it on my instep which was submerged in water.

As the cold water disappeared, I felt her warm body.

“No. That’s not good. Amy’s been busy lately. I’m worried when I see her always coming in with a tired face. Is it possible that Amy is doing all the missions by herself because she’s worried about us?”

I answered, pulling my foot away slightly.

Then Shine’s white feet followed again.

The game of tag in the water has begun.

Small white feet swim like fish.

Splash- splash-

As the game of tag continues, the conversation from before disappears from my mind.

I immediately focused on this fun game of tag.

My feet, which I was trying hard to avoid, and Shine’s feet, which were following those feet.

Small waves rose repeatedly, sending white foam flowers blooming in all directions.

“Hehehe!”

As she smiled slightly and completely pulled her feet out of the water, Shine also lifted her white legs and shook off the water.

I spoke to Shine while hugging her cold legs.

“Shine. Can you tell Jinhan?”

“What?”

“Amy, stop giving us a hard time. And I wish you’d give us some missions too.”

Shine looked at me with a strange look at my words.

I stared at her without avoiding her gaze.

I met her gaze for a long time without saying anything.

Shine, who has become close with Jin these days, would definitely be able to grant my request.

I wanted to go and talk to him myself, but I couldn’t go because just looking at him made me feel a strong sense of disgust.

“Okay. Let me say it.”

In the end, it was Shine who raised the white flag first.

Shine answered with a small sigh.

“Thank you~”

When I smiled slightly and expressed my thanks, Shine turned her head away with her lips slightly pouting.

I looked at Shine’s profile and took out the shiny stones I had kept in my pocket.

Although the name was Shiny Stone, it did not emit light in my hand, unlike its name.

But this was a stone that only began to glow when put into water.

I scattered the stones in my hand widely.

Splash splash – Pebbles fall, creating small splashes and scattering in all directions.

The stones that were placed in the water soon began to emit light.

But it’s still daytime, so I guess I’ll go. It didn’t look as pretty as I thought.

If I checked later in the evening, it would definitely show a slightly different atmosphere.

“Ugh… Jeff…”

At that moment, Rain, who had been lying down, seemed to regain his energy and crawled towards us.

I reached out and pulled at the hanging rain.

Rain, who was led by my hand and dragged along.

I laid her out next to me.

“Are you okay now?”

Rain’s gaze, filled with a strange heat, turns towards me.

The way she bit her lips as if she was slightly resentful was quite cute.

I smiled slightly and stroked Rain’s cheek.

Her cheeks were a little hot.

Rain flinched and crouched, perhaps because my hand, which had been chilled in the water, was cold.

But that only lasted a moment, as soon as Lane closed her eyes and rubbed her cheek against my hand.

“Over there. Rain.”

“Huh?”

“Don’t you think it’s strange that there aren’t any missions these days?”

“Hmm…”

Rain, who was rubbing his face against my hand, mumbled as if lost in thought.

“That’s strange. If it were normal, I would have gone out two or three more times.”

I felt certain of her words, which came out as a soft mumbling.

As expected, it seemed like Amy was taking over our mission.

Otherwise it doesn’t make sense.

“I think Amy is taking over our mission.”

Rain’s eyes lit up at my words.

Her blue eyes, once filled with passion, were now devoid of it.

Clap clap-

That was when.

At the sudden sound of applause, Rain and I turned our gaze to Shine.

She said, clasping her hands together.

“Enough with the mission story. I understand Jeff’s story. I guess I set it up wrong.”

“What, what setting?”

“Umm… I told Jeff, Lane, and I not to send them on dangerous missions, but I didn’t know it would get to Amy.”

I tilted my head at Shine’s softly mumbling words.

I couldn’t understand what she was saying at all.

But Shine spoke as if she had no intention of answering my questions.

“Amy won’t have a hard time anymore.”

“Really?”

“Okay. I’ll make it happen.”

“I don’t know what you mean, but thank you!”

I immediately reached out and hugged Shine.

Rain didn’t seem to understand what Shine was saying, but she laughed along when I said I was happy.

“I just thought Amy was busy.”

Rain and I lay next to Shine with our mouths shut, quietly listening to what she had to say.

“I was only looking at Jeff. I couldn’t look around properly.”

Although Shine would sometimes say things that were incomprehensible, Rain and I never asked about it.

Because it had to be that way.

Because Shine told me to.

I was just listening to her story.

I spent a long time lying on the rock like that.

A cool breeze and warm sunshine.

The shadow of the large tree cast over my face slowly swayed gently.

It was the perfect weather for a nap.

It was when my senses were fading as if my body was about to fall into a nap.

A delicious smell faintly wafting from afar stimulated my salivary glands.

I opened my eyes wide and sat up straight away.

“Curry!”

Yes, that’s right.

The main character of this smell was curry.

As I began to look around at the appetizing smell of curry, Rain, who was lying next to me, also sat up with his eyes shining.

“Curry!”

Only Shine lay there blankly, watching what we were doing.

As I looked around, I was able to find Victor.

He was making curry with the things that Shine and I had packed in our bags.

Rain and I ran towards the scent.

Inside the curry, there were large pieces of potatoes, meat, and various vegetables floating around.

I gulped at the thick texture of the curry and looked at Victor with shining eyes.

He shook his head as he stirred the ladle.

“It’s still far from being finished.”

“Excuse me, does that meat over there look like it’s cooked?”

I answered Victor’s words, pointing to a large piece of meat.

But Victor pushed the meat I was pointing at inward with a ladle.

“Oh no!”

“The meat is gone.”

Victor said with a mischievous smile.

As soon as I pointed to another piece of meat, he moved the ladle and threw all the meat deep into the curry.

“Come later.”

I checked my phone at his words.

It’s only 11 o’clock in the morning.

Sure, it was a little early for lunch, but it would be a great disrespect to the curry if it didn’t smell this delicious.

Rain next to me seemed to have the same thoughts as me, his eyes sparkling and he put strength into his legs.

“If you don’t give me the curry right now, I’ll beat you up pretty good.”

“Rain said with a growl.

But Victor did not answer Lane’s words.

He just let out a hollow laugh, as if there was no need to even answer.

Then his gaze fell on me.

He nodded as if a good idea had occurred to him.

“Jeff. Today’s training is tag.”

“Hey, tag?”

“If you catch me, you can eat delicious curry.”

“What if I don’t catch it?”

“Then you will be eating curry without any meat.”

Victor said so and stirred the ladle to reveal the meat buried underneath.

I gulped at the sight.

Curry without meat, that was something I couldn’t even imagine.

I tensed my leg muscles moderately, my eyes shining.

Victor looked at me and Lane, who were ready, then took a long iron bar out of his pocket and drove it around the pot.

It was a slightly different iron bar than the one used for training.

A small circle on the end of a stick rotates slowly.

Victor, who was looking down at it, stretched out his hand and fired a blue lightning bolt, causing a circular curtain to form around the pot.

Crackle crackle – A circular barrier with a fierce growl was blocking all approach from the surrounding area.

Lane rolled the ground on his right leg like an ox.

Knock knock – small feet scattered the pebbles around them.

She leapt straight forward the moment Victor fell out of the pot.

Rain flew by like a shot.

But her attack did not reach Victor.

Victor turned his body slightly, grabbed Lane’s outstretched hand, and threw it to the other side.

Training has begun.

I walked straight towards the pot.

I have the same ability, and yet you only installed such a simple defensive wall.

Victor was too complacent.

I swallowed the saliva flowing from the corner of my mouth and reached out toward the iron bar.

A tingling sensation envelopes my fingertips.

Now, all I had to do was find this flow and cut it off, and all the curry contained here was mine.

The moment I was raising my power while imagining a delicious curry, something flew in and wrapped itself around my wrist with a snapping sound.

“Oops.”

The electricity moving inside the body disperses with a crackling sound.

A feeling as if something heavy is weighing you down.

It was a bracelet for controlling abilities.

“This training does not use any abilities.”

When I turned my head to look at Victor, he was smiling, holding a white bracelet in his hand.

He too was wearing a bracelet, as if he was not going to use his abilities.

What about Rain then?

When I turned my gaze to Rain, she was sitting far away, looking at the bracelet on her arm and frowning.

At first, when she ran towards Victor, it seemed like he had put it on her arm.

“Shine.”

Victor took another bracelet out of his pocket and called out to Shine.

Then she, who was sitting on a large rock far away, raised her hand.

Victor lightly flicked the bracelet in his hand at that sight.

The bracelet that flew around and rotated ended up wrapped around Shine’s wrist.

“All three, charge with all your might.”

Victor said, pushing his head back.

And added a little.

“If you want to eat curry.”